A sure sign that pressure is mounting - and yes, andrewj, something like that likely on the cards.

Banking on Treasury
Douglas and Richardson needed considerable help in drafting their programs, getting them through the cabinet-where most of their colleagues cared very deeply about being re- elected-and driving the reforms down through the bureaucracy. What is startling is where that help came from.
It came in the shape of the Treasury, New Zealand's most elite and powerful department. Treasury provided not only the intellectual foundation for many of the reforms but also the technical expertise needed to translate theory into reality. "The Treasury became the life- support system for Douglas, Richardson, and other politicians trying to reform the system," says one longtime government watcher.
Treasury also brought an intellectually rigorous approach to New Zealand's reforms that had no parallel in either the Reagan or Thatcher administrations. "It became a "˜think tank' for the neo-liberal [in the classical sense of the word] movement," writes political scientist Enid Wistrich, "using its authority as the top government department to influence the political leaders and secure the implementation of its blueprint." It was as if the Office of Management and Budget were run by University of Chicago economists.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/30260.html
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50 Mai Chen
Lawyer
New
You could say we've been slow in recognising Chen on the Power List "“ the clippings files are studded with references to her status as a powerful lobbyist and one of the nation's most influential women. She set up public law firm Chen Palmer with former prime minister Geoffrey Palmer in 1994, with the aim of pioneering Washington-style legal lobbying in Wellington: the idea was to get into the corridors of power and influence the way statutes and regulations were written, and give sharp strategic advice. They quickly had some of New Zealand's biggest companies on their books, and Chen has continued the momentum since Palmer left to preside over the Law Commission in 2005. She claimed last year that "most public law issues in New Zealand have had some input from us, whether that is known or not". Also a member of the Securities Commission and the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
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Washington Lobbying Grew to $3.2 Billion Last Year, Despite Economy
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/01/washington-lobbying-grew-to-32.html

Maybe its time for Johny the central bankers favourite son to take responsibility like he said he should, I typed this out from a pre election interview on RadioLive;

Willy Jackson and John Tamahere interviewed John Key on afternoon of 5 Nov 2008.
Here is an answer given by John Key re what caused the credit crisis. It should be remembered that at about this time in the election campaign he was batting away questions from Labour in regard to his career at Merrill Lynch 7 years ago as being that long ago there is no way he could be tied to having any contribution to the current Credit Crisis;

Caller Matty asked John Key what he thought got the world into this position(Credit Crisis) John Key replied;
"Relatively quickly, you had a massive expansion of credit over the last decade or two, so basically the banks have gone and Lent miles of money engaged in very risky behaviour, they have done it to to much of an extreme and whats happened is that eventually the chickens have come home to roost and its all imploded and yup, you know Wall St its got to take responsibility for its own excesses and its got it wrong, the good news is from New Zealands point of view is our banks haven't really engaged in that kind of behaviour and don't have exposure to the kind of counter parties that fell over, but unfortunately Mum and Dad owe a lot of money, not the government, the governments not at all indebted really, but Mum and Dad are and whats happened is that liquidity to fund their borrowing is drying up".
John Tamahere asks;
"Ok, oh, exposure to the Australian banks".
John Key;
"Yeah, look I tell you the thing with the Australian banks is, it, um we need to, ah in one sense weve got a bit of strength funnily enough, I know people, I mean I support KiwiBank, we are not selling it, we never going to sell it, but, but I do support the fact that because the Australian banks have quite a big part of our market, because they are bigger, they're just bigger organisations they can actually weather these storms a little bit, there's some upsides, I know a lot of people don't like them, but there are some upsides to having them in our economy. Secondly, we just got to make sure that, that wholesale guarantee which allows the New Zealand subsidiaries in their own name to be able to raise capital to be able to operate and we've got work with, not because we are trying bailout the banks, no one should be under that illusion, but if they cant borrow they cant lend and our economy is going into depression if that is the case."

http://www.radiolive.co.nz/OnAirHosts/WillieandJT/AudioPodcast/tabid/172...
toggle about 1/3 way down, listen to part 2 from about 4.35

Rod - The thing that slaveminded elitists hate the most is irrefutable facts. Rod the truth hurts I know, but I will not being going anywhere anytime soon, so you better grab yourself some panadol.

John Key was on the advisory board of the US FED (1999-2001) current owners of the Credit Creation Mechanism when they loaned the world more created credit at compounding interest than there was the resources of the planet to be converted into currency to be ever repay the issued debt.
He stated that Wall St over the period he described were responsible, not me;
John Key
"Relatively quickly, you had a massive expansion of credit over the last decade or two, so basically the banks have gone and Lent miles of money engaged in very risky behaviour, they have done it to to much of an extreme and whats happened is that eventually the chickens have come home to roost and its all imploded and yup, you know Wall St its got to take responsibility for its own excesses and its got it wrong"

You are right I do myself no favours in calling John- Johny and will from here on in refrain. I how ever wil not refrain from labelling him the central bankers favourite son because it is a very apt description.

Rod you will soon realise that unsupported vitriol will not stand up against the calibre of people you come up against on both sides of the debate on this site.

Whats your job description Rod?

I am proud to be a Truck Driver that has put thirteen years of study in on top of my Real World job to understand the deceitful mechanisms of the False World.

What I would like to see included in opinion polls would be how many people say none of them as an indication of those that have lost faith in the system.
Have a lovely day

Now theres the thing Rod, sounds like you are the sought of chap who would only allocate 13 weeks to look into anything. The reason it took me a while to be as schooled up as I wanted to be before I entered the fray was the fact I had to do it whilst working on average 55-70 hours a week over that period, meaning I could not access the worlds greatest library, the internet, at will.
Look hard enough and you will find the so-called business cycle is far more rigged than it is random. If you do cotton on to that fact and then choose to feed off the fact like Snapper feeding under a shark frenzy without concern for the impact upon your society and all its citizen, you are a slaveminded elitist.
As to how far I have been back you can find out exactly that right here;
http://socialcreditorbust.blog.co.nz/authors%20bibliography/

Rod - Rob I have just realised my mistake. I do apoligise.